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From the high Himalayas to the poles, the world’s glaciers are melting. What does this mean for your community and our shared Earth? David Breashears presents his stunning new images of the Himalayan glaciers to mark the MIT Museum’s opening ...

A video of Clearly Impossible, an installation by Zhe Huang and Yao Zhang. The installation was originally part of a larger exhibition at the MIT Museum called Ways of Seeing. It will be up at the museum until May 25, 2012. Sponsored by Florcraft, Clearly Impossible is a MIT Museum Studio ...

A project by the SENSEable City Lab, MIT. Today, more than a third of global CO2 emissions are generated by transportation. CO2GO, a new type of smartphone application, is an effective tool that assists in making smarter individual transportation choices to collectively reduce carbon ...

John W. Dower, Professor of Japanese History, MIT Department of History; Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University John Dower sees a world of difference between a shattered Japan that accepted U.S. occupation, and fractious Iraq, ...

Robert E. Looney, Professor of National Security Affairs, and Associate Chairman of Instruction, Naval Postgraduate School; John Tirman, Executive Director, Center for International Studies, MIT Iraq's oil reserves are the second largest in the world, yet according to both colloquium speakers, ...

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT Description: U.S. actions in Iraq get a thorough thrashing in this final chapter of the Reconstructing Iraq series. First, Yosef Jabareen sprints through editorial page cartoons from Arab print media, which represent the U.S. as immoral, abusive, greedy ...

SMArchS Colloquium, October 12, 2012Edward Eigen, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of DesignAnaglyptography and the Phthisiophobic Imagination; or, The Passion of Louis Braille: An Historico-Religio-Numismatic Essay

Through the power of shape and curvature, very thin shells can achieve impressive strength and stiffness, even when they are made only from frozen water-soaked fabric. This workshop, aptly titled "Forces Frozen" seeks to push the boundaries of ice shells through ...